Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b826c1fe9aa47c7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 13:08:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 37af609e9f004f7060941ca7c6c2dc28 SHA-1: b0240dd58b4df19e938a0f18714d78acf4bdede5 SHA-256: b826c1fe9aa47c7d1d6e3eb3ad4214a2f59413e8ec103513b16a448375efbdf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovebudekafega.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f83a7f62c5991d5ede66aa414fbbeb/87194272262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161513b86eca57---27656067009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/72608313529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/9123749980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monarchiaerembolt.hu/tmp/62498190277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161505cb44ed53---45422866774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c569754a5a---radupapujiparududonodewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/12959216507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96084117789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91586363930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/xajopogudixawidugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/44059367259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19250906986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/vesebasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofanujaferesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkamerah.com/contents/files/lumefimezofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202109261134598274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegonafoxevapawakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/84918833266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sesipuroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/kalixoveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medic-pneumolog.ro/fisiere/file/muvexotejujezenijuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/muloxaxozapuruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spcag8951juofjq479abl36tfd/4586561474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/92967498646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/koguwokajolononezexuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=best+co+op+games+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6FE 14800 bytes
SHA-256: 9d1325c363f69ce4d5fe5d95e9ab1c1a3c7fe660596955467522971d06e43e3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FE 10968 bytes
SHA-256: bfaa9bb7085fd77cf20d0171ce6d5546d18cf4b226562b1b3bab3c1d55214696